Where do I Live
Produced by the Kalamazoo Valley Museum
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Detailed Description:
When Piper comes home from school, there is a letter waiting for her. She asks her older brother and friends how the mailman knows where she lives, and begins an exploration of the parts of her address. The children go over the house number, the street name, and the city.
To get a better idea of what is a city, an imaginary trip in a hot air balloon takes the audience high over the buildings of Kalamazoo, then higher to view the surrounding landscape. “If you could go even higher, you could see the whole state.”
Through maps then a globe, the children expand their view to recognize that we live on a planet. The other planets of our solar system are introduced with basic descriptions of what makes each planet special.
The remaining member of our solar system, the sun, is compared to the planets, revealing that it is really a star. The reason the sun looks different from other stars is because it is much closer, “if the sun was moved as far away as the other stars it would look just like them.”
The sun itself is only one star in a star city, or galaxy, called the Milky Way which is one of billions of galaxies that fill the universe around us.
As the program comes to an end, Piper and her brother review her complete address.
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